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What "modern" Railway Rolling Stock Would You Preserve?

Тема в разделе 'Diesel & Electric Traction', создана пользователем richards, 1 май 2013.

  1. Jamessquared

    Jamessquared Nat Pres stalwart

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    Going to take up a hell of a lot of space in a museum!

    Tom
     
  2. Corbs

    Corbs Well-Known Member

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    Do you think they'll reserve two class 43s or just one and have the prototype power car on the other end?
     
  3. Martin Perry

    Martin Perry Nat Pres stalwart Staff Member Moderator Friend

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    I am pretty sure that the listing was for a full production set. Rightly so.
     
  4. Jamessquared

    Jamessquared Nat Pres stalwart

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    Don't mean to sound inflammatory but I'm surprised there isn't more support here for a class 70 :)

    Tom
     
  5. Reading General

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    20 hoppers might be a long stretch and probably not too useful; but a set of freightliner trucks would be "simple" to preserve (no bodywork, no buffers, not a lot of anything really!) and have the added bonus of providing a platform for the various collections of shipping containers that preserved railways tend to gather, as offices, storerooms, workshops etc. Could be a bit embarrassing of course if you turn up for duty one day to find the messroom and signing on point has gone off up the line...
    Then again, maybe these are one type of vehicle that will be with us relatively unchanged for the longer term; can't see shipping containers going out of fashion in the next 30 years...

    Definitely we need to preserve a full HST set, and whilst they may not be popular, if we're to "tell the story" of Britain's railways a class 66 will one day be a "must have". Though not a Southern, nor an EMU fan, the "ones that got away" in my book include the 2/4PEP (classes 445/446) as the first of the "modern" southern EMUs, and the class 310/312 slam-door EMUs (that largely displaced the earlier 304s). The curved glass windscreens on the 310s could have been a bit of a pain for restorers! Like the 1st generation DMUs, these allowed passengers a great view of the line ahead (if the driver didn't spoil the fun by pulling down the blind)
     
  7. JWKB

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    Turbo star ? Not sure of there class but they have certainly been the mainstay for commuters out of London Paddington.e
     
  8. Ploughman

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    I suppose there would be no room then anywhere for these?


     
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    pmh_74 Part of the furniture

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    319008+319009. Well, I hope somebody does.
     
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    5944 Resident of Nat Pres

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    The French, hopefully.
     
  11. markb846

    markb846 New Member

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    well if we are going for units I would like 321418
     
  12. ADB968008

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    A parry people mover, as proof of how low railways can really go.
     
  13. david1984

    david1984 Resident of Nat Pres

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    No, they must all be exterminated as an abortion of BR politics we should wallpaper over when they are gone.

    A HST possibly, though the NRM would argue the prototype power car covers that.

    59 and 66 have so little difference, one of either would cover both types, though I'd argue the 59 is more significant.

    Class 91 ?.
     
  14. david1984

    david1984 Resident of Nat Pres

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    I'd suggest an NRM HST could be better utilised loaned out to charter operators, offering a high speed option to the daytripper market who are not fussed about the traction used, UK Railtours already do this ocasionally by hiring a spare set from EMT.
     
  15. richards

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    Nice idea, but which livery? Maybe each power car/coach in a different one to reflect their widespread use throughout the network? Actually, you'd probably need two or three complete HST sets to cover all the liveries.

    Richard
     
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    What about a class 67 and a rake of Royal Mail vans/coaches. Then show Royal Mail how they should be transporting mail around the Uk and not using road haulage to transport mail around the UK.
     
  17. markb846

    markb846 New Member

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    Think somebody wanted a 325 the a 67 could tow that about
     
  18. david1984

    david1984 Resident of Nat Pres

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    Not unknown for the powercars and stock to be in different liveries when sets were swapped and new liveries were coming in, personlly I'd have one powercar and the coaches in the original blue & grey livery and the other powercar in the Intercity "swallow" livery, I've heard people say the Intercity brand is copyrighted and can't be used, but Ian Riley clearly doesn't think so with 37518.
     
  19. david1984

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    Plenty of Mk1 TPO/postal vehicles already in preservation, no need for the NRM to save duplicates.
     
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    Full HST is obviously a must, ideally one end with the original Paxman engines, the other as current.

    Class 57, Class 66, Class 67

    Unit wise, 142, 140, 158 which represent several "era's" of DMU thinking. (Not sure about EMU's - not really my part of the country)

    I suppose we should save a Voyager set, just so everyone in the future realizes how awful they were... we may have to pay people to travel on it however...

    On a different thought, what about some of todays specialized plant and equipment - things like tampers, rubber duck road railers? Would be both useful, and something that has historically tended to disappear...
     

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